Calling subscriber information notification

• US 5,910,980 A
• Filed: 04/21/1997
• Issued: 06/08/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kaneko, Yoshihiro, Ogasawara, Hajime
• Primary Examiner(s): LOOMIS, PAUL A
• Application Number:
  US08/839,910
• Time in Patent Office: 778 Days
• Field of Search: 379/142, 379/201, 379/215, 379/230, 379/93.26, 379/93.28, 370/466, 370/467
• US Class Current: 379/142.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 11/0457 Connection protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/72 Finding out and indicating number of calling subscriber

Abstract

Information, such as a calling subscriber number, is furnished to a called subscriber, regardless of the type of subscriber terminal that is accommodated by an access network, which is provided independent of a local exchange, and regardless of whether a connection is a wireless connection or a wire connection. A calling subscriber information notification system includes a local exchange, and an access network, located independent of the local exchange, for accommodating a plurality of subscriber terminals. When a call is made by one of the subscriber terminals, the access network receives, from the local exchange, a signal message including information concerning a calling subscriber terminal, and when a called subscriber has been registered for a called number notification service sends to the called subscriber, the information concerning the calling subscriber terminal that has been received from the local exchange.

Claims

1. A calling subscriber information notification system, comprising:

a local exchange for generating a signal message including information concerning a calling subscriber terminal; and

an access network, located independent of said local exchange, for accommodating a plurality of subscriber terminals, and when a called subscriber has been registered for a called number notification service, sending the signal message sent from said local exchange to the called subscriber;

wherein said local exchange has an interface for call control, which is performed by a protocol set on a control channel provided together with a communication channel on a PCM transfer path and is connected to said access network across the PCM transfer path.

2. The calling subscriber information notification system according to claim 1,

wherein said information concerning said subscriber information terminal includes the phone number and the name of said calling subscriber.

3. A calling subscriber information notification system, comprising:

a local exchange for generating a signal message including information concerning a calling subscriber terminal; and

an access network, located independent of said local exchange, for accommodating a plurality of subscriber terminals, and when a called subscriber has been registered for a called number notification service, sending the signal message sent from said local exchange to the called subscriber;

wherein a format for said information concerning said calling subscriber terminal that is transmitted from said local exchange to said access network is constituted in consonance with a public switched telephone network protocol, and wherein as parts of said format are included an identification code for said information, a length of said information, and said information.

4. The calling subscriber information notification system according to claim 3,

wherein said information includes at least a phone number of a calling subscriber.

5. A calling subscriber information notification system comprising:

a local exchange for generating a signal message including information concerning a calling subscriber terminal; and

access network, located independent of said local exchange, for accommodating a plurality of subscriber terminals, and when a called subscriber has been registered for a called number notification service, sending the signal message sent from said local exchange to the called subscriber;

wherein said local exchange has a subscriber management table wherein are entered data indicating whether or not a called subscriber has been registered for a called number notification service, and information indicating whether a called subscriber is an analog terminal or an ISDN terminal, and whether the called subscriber is connected to said access network by wire or by wireless.

6. The calling subscriber information notification system according to claim 5,

wherein said local exchange transmits a called setup request to said access network, and wherein, when a called subscriber has been registered for a called number notification service, said access network that has received said called request does not immediately perform ringing, but waits to receive a signal message, from said local exchange, included in which is calling subscriber information, and then performs ringing.

7. The calling subscriber information notification system according to claim 5,

wherein when said called subscriber is a terminal connected to said access network by wireless, the message including calling subscriber information to be transmitted by said access network to a wireless subscriber terminal conforms to a standard corresponding to wireless communication method.